In­dia fired at­tack drones in­to Pak­istan on Thurs­day, wound­ing four sol­diers, the Pak­istani mil­i­tary said. In­dia, mean­while, ac­cused its neigh­bor of at­tempt­ing its own at­tack, as ten­sions soared be­tween the nu­clear-armed ri­vals.

Po­lice have re­cov­ered three swords that were stolen from the Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Aero­space Mu­se­um (CMHAM) last month.

Those were the two words used by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie to de­scribe his first days in of­fice yes­ter­day, as he claimed the bud­getary al­lo­ca­tion for le­gal fees for this fis­cal year has al­ready been spent out by the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie have raised an ear­ly alarm over a com­bined $570 mil­lion in un­paid debts for the two min­istries left by the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion—funds owed to drug sup­pli­ers, main­te­nance con­trac­tors, and at­tor­neys, which they are now bur­dened to clear.

Al­though he was on­ly ap­proached by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to lead a min­istry days ago, Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment, and Tourism Satyaka­ma “Ka­ma” Ma­haraj has am­bi­tious plans to re­shape Trinidad and To­ba­go’s busi­ness land­scape at a time when the coun­try con­tin­ues to face chal­lenges with its ease of do­ing busi­ness.

Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has de­scribed his ap­point­ment as Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing as “very ex­cit­ing.” He joined David Lee, the sub­stan­tive min­is­ter, and Anil Roberts, al­so a min­is­ter in the min­istry, form­ing a three-per­son team to tack­le the coun­try’s hous­ing chal­lenges.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been “burn­ing the mid­night oil” to man­age the State’s af­fairs out of her pri­vate res­i­dence in Phillip­ine, San Fer­nan­do.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has con­firmed that Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing ahead with plans to op­er­a­tionalise the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal, and may con­sid­er the re­cruit­ment of for­eign nurs­es if need­ed.

De­spite the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) unan­i­mous­ly se­lect­ing Pen­ne­lope Beck­les as its Op­po­si­tion Leader and its gen­er­al coun­cil elect­ing a new chair­man and vice chair­man, not every­one is con­vinced the par­ty is uni­fied.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Win­ford James says To­ba­go’s new­ly elect­ed Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment may be strong voic­es in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, but they won’t have re­al pow­er un­less they ne­go­ti­ate care­ful­ly with the rul­ing Gov­ern­ment.

Cer­tain for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) min­is­ters are tipped to be ap­point­ed op­po­si­tion sen­a­tors, ac­cord­ing to PNM sources.

Trini­bad artiste Bradlee “Sai” Dha­naram, who had threat­ened to tie-strap sup­port­ers from a po­lit­i­cal par­ty on a Tik­Tok video three weeks be­fore the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, has been placed on a $5,000 bond for two years.